Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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FestivalsEdinburgh International Film Festival 2013: The Picks
The brochure for the 67th Edinburgh Film Festival is hot off the presses and Chris Fujiwara and his team's selection has proved as eclectic and exciting as last year's programme. Here's what we're most looking forward to... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
New ReleasesThe Big Wedding
Based on the 2006 French film Mon Frère Se Marie, Justin Zackham’s The Big Wedding is a huge misfire that squanders its collection of stars on c... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
Film EventsScotland Film Event Highlights – June 2013
This month The Grosvnor goes potty for Potter; it's mods v rockers at GFT; the Cameo have a season of MGM classics; and the UK Green Festival brings films with consciences to Glasgow Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Cría Cuervos
Three years after her precocious debut in The Spirit of the Beehive, Cría Cuervos (1973) confirmed Ana Torrent a young actress of remarkable... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsBlow Out
"So, you’re an ear-witness to an assassination.” Terry is a soundman working on exploitation films who, out one night in the countryside to recor... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
CineskinnyLore
Adapted from Rachel Seiffert’s 2001 novel The Dark Room, Lore presents the dissolution of the Third Reich through the eyes of a teenage girl raised in ... Read more »| 27 May 2013
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News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 May
In today's Bulletin: The Clash to release 5-disc box set; details from the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Scottish Opera programmes; plus new music from Icarus Line, Madlib, Congo Natty and Dirty Beaches Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
I Wish
Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows (2004) is one of the saddest films ever made about childhood, but his latest, I Wish, feels like the optimistic fli... Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
New Releases
Epic
Epic feels like a deliberate throwback to children’s adventure films of the 80s and 90s. And not necessarily the good ones – it’s plagued b... Read more »| 21 May 2013 -
Interviews
Myth Making: Neil Jordan on Byzantium
Neil Jordan returns to the vampire sub-genre with Byzantium, an adult fairy tale starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. We spoke to the Irishman at Glasgow Film Festival, where Byzantium had its UK première Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
New Releases
Byzantium
Neil Jordan loves a myth. His best movies (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Company of Wolves) are dreamy fairy tales with one toe in reality. The sensual and... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Gangster Squad
Not much liked by the critics on its theatrical release, Gangster Squad's account of the creation of an extra-legal LAPD team to take down mob boss Mickey Co... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
The Last Stand
"I'll give the sheriff a call to tell him to get out of the way." When a psychopathic cartel boss is sprung from custody in Las Vegas and races towards the M... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Sacrifice
If there's one thing that we learn from this historical epic from director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine), it is that if revenge is a dish best served co... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
The Unbelievable Truth
Audry feels, and looks, like the heroine of a Nouvelle Vague film who is trapped in the very ordinary surroundings of a Long Island suburb in the late 1980s.... Read more »| 17 May 2013